Coal shortage in big coal reserves city will directly impact local areas

”According to the data of Ximeng Bureau of statistics, Ximeng has proved more than 100 billion tons of coal reserves, and now has 19 large, medium and small coal producers with a total capacity of 122.3 million tons / year. From January to August of this year, the coal production and sales rate of the whole league was 98%, of which the export proportion reached 62%. In other words, once the local coal production is greatly reduced, it will directly impact the local and surrounding areas. According to the report, local thermal power and chemical enterprises bear the brunt first - "the daily coal input of multiple power plants can not meet the coal consumption demand of full load production of the unit at all, and each plant stops part of the unit operation in varying degrees, which will lead to the prominent pressure of the industrial output value of the whole league.
Among them, Shangdu power plant is unable to produce at full load because the coal storage capacity is lower than the minimum requirement of power grid. At present, two units have been shut down, and the annual output value is expected to be 300 million. " For another example, Datang Duolun coal chemical industry is expected to use nearly 7.9 million tons of coal throughout the year, and the demand for raw coal in the next four months of this year is nearly 3.5 million tons. Due to the shortage of supply, "the enterprise contacts the coal source through various ways, and then purchases bituminous coal and simmer coal from Ordos to supplement the production demand, and the factory price is 680 CNY/ton and 400 CNY/ton respectively, which is significantly higher than the factory price of 200 CNY/ton lignite. If the price of coal rises or the source of coal is insufficient during the heating period, the enterprise will face the risk of stopping production. " The relevant head of Datang Group further said: "for the projects of our group that should have used lignite, at present more than 80% of raw materials are converted to bituminous coal. In order to maintain production, we can only purchase bituminous coal at a high price. The monthly loss of the project was more than 20 million yuan before, and now it is more than 100 million yuan a month. "
The head of a power plant in the eastern part of Ximeng also told reporters that although it is inconvenient to provide specific data, it is certain that the situation is not optimistic. "Especially since the heating season, though coordinated by many parties, we still feel the supply is more tense." In addition, according to the prediction made by Ximeng Energy Bureau in the analysis of coal industry operation in Xilingol League from January to August 2019, the tense situation may continue. Take the supply scope of the local Shengli mining area as an example. In the last four months, the total demand reached 18.4 million tons. However, it is estimated that "the total output of Shengli mining area in the last four months is 7.2 million tons, which can not meet the demand of the surrounding Qi County town for heating, power and chemical enterprises, and the gap is 11.2 million tons". At the time of continuous fermentation of coal supply tension, Ximeng Statistics Bureau deleted the report from its official website. "On the one hand, this" report "is an internal document, which is only linked to the Internet due to operational errors. On the other hand, the report was obtained by the Bureau of statistics in July and August. There is no problem with the content itself, but now it has been more than two months since production began to recover and the problem has been solved. " The reporter repeatedly contacted the author of the report, who explained this.
"Difficult to use land" leads to the concentrated outbreak of coal mine production hidden danger. Production is really recovering slowly? Has the problem been solved? The reporter asked Ximeng Energy Bureau for confirmation. The other side replied that the leaders of the bureau have been busy recently, which is inconvenient to be interviewed. It is reported that the main reason for the tight coal supply in Ximeng lies in the land use problem of open-pit coal mines, that is, the stripping surface of some production enterprises has reached the critical point, the difficulty of new land acquisition and the long time limit have affected the normal production. It is essential to start with the mining characteristics of open-pit coal mines. Due to the characteristics of resources, the upper part of the coal seam of the open-pit coal mine is covered with tens or even hundreds of meters of soil layers and rocks. It needs to be stripped before further mining. Therefore, mining is usually carried out at the same time of stripping overburden, and a large amount of land is occupied by the mining area and waste dump. "Even for the same mine, the land demand will increase with the increase of mining area and raw coal production. Different from the construction of thermal power projects, the land applied at the beginning of the project is basically equal to the actual use area, and there is no additional land for the same unit. "
Chen Mou, head of a large-scale coal enterprise in Ximeng, said that in recent years, with the development of centralized and large-scale mining, the production capacity of a single coal mine has gradually increased, and the demand for land is growing and the problems are increasingly prominent. "Land is the basic means of production of open-pit coal mines, without which production is impossible." Why does the enterprise have no land? According to Wu Yonggao, legal adviser of the real estate registration center of the former Ministry of land and resources and partner of Beijing Jincheng Tongda law firm, mining land involves mineral development and land use, respectively corresponding to mining certificate and land use certificate. The mining land belongs to the category of construction land. The coal mine needs to go through the formalities of acquisition and conversion, otherwise it is illegal land occupation. The "conversion" refers to the conversion of agricultural land to construction land. "Because the indicators of construction land are distributed uniformly and distributed level by level every year, a county may only be divided into several thousand mu a year, and the open-pit coal mines will be more than ten thousand Mu at a time. Without indicators, there will be no way to go through the formalities of transfer. " At the same time, under the hard requirements of national green development, ecological environmental protection and keeping the red line of cultivated land, enterprises must strictly handle the procedures of grassland acquisition and occupation, land reclamation, etc. The procedures are complex and long-term, involving development and reform, energy, environmental protection, natural resources and other departments, and there are mutual constraints among them. "In the face of the approval process that is easy to take 1-2 years, it is inevitable that it will be difficult to continue to apply when there is no land available." Said Wu Yonggao.
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